Milk feeding and weaning of goat kids — A review

Lu, C.D.; Potchoiba, Michael J.

doi:10.1016/0921-4488(88)90025-9

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“…DWG presented a mean of 151.1 g/kid/d, which lies within it range of values reported by Lu and Potchoiba (1988). The sex of the offspring showed that males compared to females showed higher DWG.…”

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Lactation curves and body weight changes of Alpine, Saanen and Anglo-Nubian goats as well as pre-weaning growth of their kids

Rubio

Kholif

Salem

et al. 2015

Journal of Applied Animal Research

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Submit your article to this journal Thirty-six goats: 15 Alpine (AG), 13 Saanen (SG) and 8 Anglo-Nubian (ANG) were used to evaluate dry matter intake (DMI), body weight (BW) changes and milk production to validate Wood's model in lactation curves. The kids preweaning weight, weaning weight (WW) and daily weight gain (DWG) were determined. Milk production was measured daily for a period of 90 d. The DWG was quantified daily, while BW was recorded weekly. Performance of 48 kids (20 AG, 15 SG and 13 ANG), aged 15 d were evaluated. Wood's model was utilised to describe goat's lactation curve in the different studied goat breeds. Milk production was differed between breeds and according to the number of kids suckled (P < 0.05). Both of DMI and BW showed a linear increase (P < 0.05) during the studied period. Both of WW and DWG were unaffected by type of kidding and breed and were higher in males than in females. It is suggested that equation of Wood's model is adequate to describe the lactation curve in studied goat breeds. The ANG and AG breeds versus SG had more persistence for milk production which was higher for those with single type of birth than those with twins.

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“…The sex of kid affects birth weight, weaning and postweaning gains (Lu & Potchoiba 1988;Andries 2013). Likewise, weight gain pre-and post-weaning is greater in kids born in single births than those from multiple births (Merlos-Brito et al 2008).…”

Section: Weaning Weightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lactation curves and body weight changes of Alpine, Saanen and Anglo-Nubian goats as well as pre-weaning growth of their kids

Rubio

Kholif

Salem

et al. 2015

Journal of Applied Animal Research

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“…Both were collected before giving to the animals. The animals were held in individual cages (1.0 × 0.75 m) and given 1.0 kg of liquid diet each day, as suggested by Lu and Potchoiba (1988) and Goetsch et al (2001). For 30 days, 0.5 kg of liquid diet was provided in the morning and 0.5 kg was provided in the afternoon.…”

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“…The natural strategy for reducing costs during the suckling phase involves replacing goat milk with diets of lower cost, such as those based on cow milk, commercial milk replacers or fermented cow colostrum. Other alternatives include early weaning (Lu and Potchoiba, 1988) and restricting milk doses (Goetsch et al, 2001), both of which lead to an increased consumption of solid food, which is cheaper compared to liquid diets.…”

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Dairy goat kids fed liquid diets in substitution of goat milk and slaughtered at different ages: an economic viability analysis using Monte Carlo techniques

Knupp

Veloso

Marcondes

et al. 2016

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The aim of this study was to analyze the economic viability of producing dairy goat kids fed liquid diets in alternative of goat milk and slaughtered at two different ages. Forty-eight male newborn Saanen and Alpine kids were selected and allocated to four groups using a completely randomized factorial design: goat milk (GM), cow milk (CM), commercial milk replacer (CMR) and fermented cow colostrum (FC). Each group was then divided into two groups: slaughter at 60 and 90 days of age. The animals received Tifton hay and concentrate ad libitum. The values of total costs of liquid and solid feed plus labor, income and average gross margin were calculated. The data were then analyzed using the Monte Carlo techniques with the @Risk 5.5 software, with 1000 iterations of the variables being studied through the model. The kids fed GM and CMR generated negative profitability values when slaughtered at 60 days (US$ −16.4 and US$ −2.17, respectively) and also at 90 days (US$ −30.8 and US$ −0.18, respectively). The risk analysis showed that there is a 98% probability that profitability would be negative when GM is used. In this regard, CM and FC presented low risk when the kids were slaughtered at 60 days (8.5% and 21.2%, respectively) and an even lower risk when animals were slaughtered at 90 days (5.2% and 3.8%, respectively). The kids fed CM and slaughtered at 90 days presented the highest average gross income (US$ 67.88) and also average gross margin (US$ 18.43/animal). For the 60-day rearing regime to be economically viable, the CMR cost should not exceed 11.47% of the animal-selling price. This implies that the replacer cannot cost more than US$ 0.39 and 0.43/kg for the 60-and 90-day feeding regimes, respectively. The sensitivity analysis showed that the variables with the greatest impact on the final model's results were animal selling price, liquid diet cost, final weight at slaughter and labor. In conclusion, the production of male dairy goat kids can be economically viable when the kids diet consists mainly of either cow milk or fermented colostrum, especially when kids are slaughtered at 90 days of age.

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“…Dairy goats are typically not allowed to nurse kids to prevent transfer of potential diseases such as caprine arthritis encephalitis (Lu and Potchoiba, 1988), in addition to use of milk for human consumption. Also, suboptimal mothering ability of and or milk production by high fibre-and meat-producing goats can result in orphan kids, often twins and triplets (Sahlu et al, 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%

A note on the effect of restricted consumption of water and/or dry matter in milk replacer on growth by male and female Alpine kids

Goetsch¹,

Puchała²,

Lachica³

et al. 2000

J. Anim. Feed Sci.

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Seventy-nine Alpine kids (35 female and 44 male) were used to determine effects on liveweight gain of milk replacer consumed ad libitum (I) or with restricted consumption of water (II) or both water and dry matter (III). Kids began the 8-week experiment at 3 to 9 days after birth; a commercial milk replacer was fed twice daily. The I kids received ad libitum access to milk replacer with 14.3% dry matter; III kids received 14.3% dry matter milk replacer, with ad libitum access in week 1 and approximately 90, 80, and 70% of consumption by I kids in weeks 2, 3, and 4 to 8, respectively; and II kids received ad libitum access to 14.3% dry matter milk replacer in week 1, thereafter receiving a similar quantity of dry matter as I kids and limited water, with a milk replacer dry matter concentration of 15.7, 17.3, and 19.2% in weeks 2, 3, and 4 to 8, respectively. Milk replacer dry matter intake was 183, 172, and 157 g/day in weeks 1 to 4 (SE 5.6) and 219, 201, and 181 g/day (SE 6.4) in weeks 5 to 8; water intake was 1098, 853, and 939 g/day (SE 32.2) in weeks 1 to 4 and 1315, 911, and 1086 g/day (SE 34.6) in weeks 5 to 8 for I, II, and III, respectively. Liveweight gain was lowest among treatments (PO.07) for III in weeks 1 to 4 (146, 131, and 118 g/day; SE 5.9) and 5 to 8 (137, 140, and 115 g/day; SE 7.2, for I, II, and III, respectively). However, sex influenced (P<0.05) treatment effects on liveweight gain in weeks 1 to 8 (female: 129, 120. and 117 g/day, and male: 155, 151, and 116 g/day for I, II, and III, respectively; SE 7.2). Milk replacer treatment did not affect liveweight gain in the subsequent 4-week period after weaning (P>0.05).

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Milk feeding and weaning of goat kids — A review

Cited by 44 publications

References 4 publications

Lactation curves and body weight changes of Alpine, Saanen and Anglo-Nubian goats as well as pre-weaning growth of their kids

Lactation curves and body weight changes of Alpine, Saanen and Anglo-Nubian goats as well as pre-weaning growth of their kids

Dairy goat kids fed liquid diets in substitution of goat milk and slaughtered at different ages: an economic viability analysis using Monte Carlo techniques

A note on the effect of restricted consumption of water and/or dry matter in milk replacer on growth by male and female Alpine kids

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